This week in Reception, we have been learning a new story called ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers. In the story a boy finds a plane in the cupboard and goes on an adventure up into the sky. Suddenly the plane’s engine splutters and he lands on the moon. Not only have children been planning and writing a postcard from the Martian to the boy, but to introduce this story, the children learned the model text with actions and we created paper airplanes which we enjoyed playing with outside.
Areas that were covered :
Communication and language
After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
Literacy
Children can describe the main events in stories they have read.
Children use key features of narrative in their own writing .
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Through explorations children can find out and make decisions about how media and materials can be combined and changed.
